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Let's take a run through the latest headlines from around the NFC South: TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS No surprise here. Sunday's game between the Bucs and St. Louis Rams won't be televised locally. The Bucs have had the blackout lifted for only two hom...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- As we get ready for Thursday night's game between the Panthers and Giants, let's turn to ESPN Stats & Information for some numbers on Carolina and New York. Eli Manning threw for 510 yards in Sunday's victory against Tampa Bay....

All the talk about Drew Brees' quest for a new contract that will make him the highest-paid player in the NFL got me thinking about quarterback salaries and average per year. It remains very likely that, sometime between now and Monday afternoon, ...

There was a time -- like pretty much the last 50 years -- when a Heisman Trophy wasn't a very good thing for a quarterback to have on his resume as he entered the NFL. When Baylor's Robert Griffin III gets taken early in next week's NFL draft, he ...

On Thursday, we showed you the First Take debate on if Andrew Luck or Cam Newton will have the better career. Now, let's add another layer to this argument. NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock said he would take Luck over Newton. Mayock went on ...

It's kind of ironic that Carolina's Cam Newton and Atlanta's Matt Ryan will play against each other on Sunday at Bank of America Stadium. There's a very good chance Newton could move ahead of Ryan on the list of most passing yards by a rookie in N...

Carolina Panthers rookie quarterback Cam Newton has a chance to rewrite the record book by the time the season ends. Newton already is the first rookie in NFL history to throw for 10 touchdowns and run for 10 touchdowns in a season. But Newton ...

On the surface, it looks like there's a great argument brewing out there about who should be the NFL's Offensive Rookie of the Year. The names Cam Newton, Andy Dalton and DeMarco Murray are getting tossed around. It makes for great conversation, b...

Thoughts on the New Orleans Saints' 31-21 loss to the St. Louis Rams on Sunday at the Edward Jones Dome. What it means: I'd like to say there's no shame in losing to a St. Louis team that came into the game winless. But I can't. I'd like to say th...

This was supposed to be the year Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Peyton Manning and Aaron Rodgers got company. Philip Rivers, Matt Ryan, Sam Bradford or Josh Freeman -- or any combination of those four -- was supposed to join the club of truly great quarte...

Seven NFC South players were in a pretty exclusive club in 2010. Carolina's Ryan Kalil and Geoff Schwartz, Atlanta's Justin Blalock, Sam Baker and Harvey Dahl and New Orleans' Jahri Evans and Carl Nick played every one of their team's offensive snaps...

Since it seems like just about everyone is second-guessing the Atlanta Falcons these days, might as well join the club. I could go in any number of directions here, but I'm going to go with the screen pass. Might not sound like a big deal, but it'...

This one should come as no surprise. The NFL just announced that Carolina quarterback Cam Newton has been named the Offensive Rookie of the Month for September. The No. 1 overall pick in the draft, Newton threw for 1,012 yards, the most ever by a ...

Back in the New Orleans Saints' 2009 championship season, coach Sean Payton repeatedly told his players that if they wanted to go somewhere they'd never been before, they'd have to do things they never did before. That philosophy helped the Saints...

We all know the New Orleans Saints are talking to quarterback Drew Brees (and his agent) about a contract extension. Although they're talking about a pile of money and the structure of a potential deal could be complicated, it's really not that ha...

There's an ancient NFL proverb that says you shouldn't play a rookie quarterback right away. If you do, the logic goes, you might ruin him. In breaking and somewhat related news: The world is flat. Yeah, Christopher Columbus shot the second one...